Real Vim ninjas count every keystroke - do you?

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Played Challenges

Simple, Practical, and Common - 33929 entries

Simple things we do all the time should be able to be done with very few keystrokes, but sometimes I find something I need to do makes me go, "There MUST be a better way." This challenge is just a simple movement and entering text at a certain place.

  • Best score: 22
  • Best player score: 22
  • Position: #1391 / 7489
  • Number of attempts: 14
Swap values - 4667 entries

Well, swap the values...

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #1081 / 1284
  • Number of attempts: 2
One number per line - 18840 entries

Just give me the numbers.

  • Best score: 14
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #442 / 3893
  • Number of attempts: 14
Array propagate - 346 entries

Complete the array with the keys as part of the value

  • Best score: 23
  • Best player score: 23
  • Position: #13 / 123
  • Number of attempts: 10
Number Sort - 321 entries

sort the list of newline-separated numbers incrementally. Numbers are in the range 1 to 1000, with 500 missing

  • Best score: 9
  • Best player score: 9
  • Position: #56 / 171
  • Number of attempts: 3
Just the middle - 11555 entries

Delete the instructions at the top and bottom.

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #1128 / 4234
  • Number of attempts: 8
Team names - 1848 entries

The team names are misspelled.

  • Best score: 16
  • Best player score: 16
  • Position: #159 / 592
  • Number of attempts: 6
Remember VimGolf Rules ! - 274 entries

Rules, ... and don't forget !

  • Best score: 7
  • Best player score: 7
  • Position: #31 / 146
  • Number of attempts: 4
Basic renumbering - 5707 entries

Renumbering Basic.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 19
  • Position: #772 / 1274
  • Number of attempts: 10
Vice versa - 7981 entries

Little role switching.

  • Best score: 12
  • Best player score: 12
  • Position: #378 / 2147
  • Number of attempts: 9
C Reformatting - 692 entries

You may use Visual mode... or not. #uppercase

  • Best score: 30
  • Best player score: 45
  • Position: #76 / 164
  • Number of attempts: 4
Align commas - 1097 entries

There are 15,000 aligning challenges on vimgolf.com, and they're all exactly the same. I hope this one is a little different.

  • Best score: 11
  • Best player score: 11
  • Position: #72 / 247
  • Number of attempts: 13
I forgot quotes - 16127 entries

Oops.

  • Best score: 10
  • Best player score: 10
  • Position: #765 / 4208
  • Number of attempts: 17
Words in parens - 13005 entries

We should all ace this, right?

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #905 / 3979
  • Number of attempts: 3
Simple text editing with Vim - 13419 entries

Make the pairs of lines match up by making each second line same as first

  • Best score: 13
  • Best player score: 14
  • Position: #1711 / 3846
  • Number of attempts: 4
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